Hi All-I'm looking to tile a display tank. While the silicone is drying I'd like some thoughts on what to do in order to keep my biological filtration alive in my canister and power filter. Not sure if merely putting the media in a bucket with an airstone is good enough. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks
Keeping Biological Filtration Alive While Tank Is Down
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I’m pretty sure that’s good enough, also and some flow and a lil bit of ammonia power for food, if possible just add the into another tank
Yes the bucket and airstone would work. However, to keep all the BB inside the foam aerated and kept from decomposing it would be best to actually have the can running water through it. You could hook it up to a sufficiently deep plastic tote or similar container to achieve this while you are working on the main tank. This may be a bit extraneous but imo theres definitely a possibility of losing a lot of your biofilter if its gonna be more than a couple days stagnant in the bucket.
Where are your fish/stock going during the job?
Where are your fish/stock going during the job?
I agree. Bucket with media in and airstone is not very effective in my experiance. I always recommend having the filter running in a bucket instead.
When an earthquake took out my 180 gal, I moved fish, and substrate, plants and media to a number of buckets.... aerated and filtered them for about 2 weeks.
After tank repairs, put it all back in the tank, testing revealed no interruption in cycle.
After tank repairs, put it all back in the tank, testing revealed no interruption in cycle.
You have everything there but the kitchen sink. What kind of plants and fish did you have and what were the casualties if any? How was the 180 damaged and repaired? This is good information for those of us in the earthquake zone.
Setting up a new tank for my geos (which are in the 76-gallon tank in question right now). My angelfish will stay in their existing tank which will ultimately be taken down once the silicone is dry on the display tank. I neglected to mention the tank is pretty over-filtered. An Aqua Clear 500, Eheim Ecco and Oase Biomaster. Yeah....keeps it pretty clean.
